"My thoughts on the Arik-Air flight debacle" - Banky

Banky W, one of the passengers on the Arik Air
Lagos to New York flight on March 31st shares
his thoughts on the incident that left
passengers protesting on board. Find it
below...
Recently, footage from a camera phone
has surfaced online about the dire
circumstances that passengers suffered
prior to take-off, on board an Arik Air
flight from Lagos to New York; I was one
of the passengers. For anyone who has
not seen the footage, it’s available on
Youtube and various News Websites and
Blogs. However, for purposes of this
write-up, I will recount what happened.
The flight was scheduled to take off at
about 1150pm on March 31st, 2014.
Boarding was completed on time, and all
the passengers settled in their seats and
prepared for the flight to begin. However,
there seemed to be a delay in operations
because although the ground crew had
exited the aircraft and the cabin doors
were shut, we weren’t moving. The pilot
announced that there was a small delay
in the ground crew operations on the
plane, and that we should be patient as flight would depart in few minth.